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News ‘Schools I don’t want my kid to set foot on’: For some Jewish families, Oct. 7 upended the college application process
Jewish high school seniors are crossing dream schools off their lists and replacing them with colleges where they believe Jews are welcome
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Fast Forward Under fire, Harvard and UPenn presidents condemn calling for genocide of Jews
Penn’s president promised to launch a process to clarify and evaluate the school’s policies regarding speech on campus. She said calls for genocide of Jews are “evil, plain and simple"
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Fast Forward Criticism mounts against UPenn president after she declines to say calls for genocide of Jews constitute harassment
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was the latest to lambast a contentious exchange between presidents of elite universities and a congressional committee examining the spike in antisemitism on campuses in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war
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Israel Therapy Israel Therapy: I’m in college, and I refuse to choose between #standwithIsrael and #freePalestine
Polarization is a strategy, not an inevitability. We can choose solidarity with two peoples
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Fast Forward Facing Congress, Harvard, MIT, Penn presidents defend efforts to fight antisemitism on their campuses
The hearing came amid rising campus antisemitism connected to the Israel-Hamas war
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Fast Forward University of Michigan shuts down voting on competing resolutions about Israel-Hamas war
University officials said the vote had been 'irreparably tainted'
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Fast Forward Universities take action against pro-Israel faculty for inflammatory speech about Israel-Hamas war
Professors at USC, NYU, Johns Hopkins face blowback for pro-Israel comments perceived as hostile
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Fast Forward Department of Education opens new antisemitism investigations into Harvard, Columbia, U of Tampa
The investigations join at least 7 others tied to antisemitism and Islamophobia since Oct. 7
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